Adult and Food: Understanding the Reasons why we Need the Elderly When it comes to Home Cooking (Traditional Soups and Food)

     

The elderly are known in our society to impart knowledge and wisdom and most cases to relate experiences about life. But people often overlook the importance of the elderly with regard to food. While it is true that the elderly have more and lots to offer when it comes to impacting knowledge to the youth, it is also true that the elderly can tell the youths about the culture of a land and that culture involves the food and types of soups they enjoyed while they were growing up.

So this post is mainly about what the adults (elderly) have to offer when it comes to the types of food and soups that a particular tribe use to enjoy and how you can through the elderly get to know these foods and soups and have ideas as to how these soups and foods are prepared. So that anytime you meet and elderly for an advice you can as well just meet her for tips about your local and tribal food.

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Roles of the Elderly regarding soups

The elderly are wise: The elderly are known for their wisdom and this is true because they preserve the cultures of the land and they tell stories about the way of life to their people. So if you really want to know about some types of soups or food that is enjoyed by a particular tribe you need to ask an elderly woman for explanation and you would be glad you did.

Today’s youth are tomorrows Adult: Who are the youths of today? The simple answer is simple and clear, they are the adults of tomorrow. So as a youth today, you need to know that it is your responsibility to tell tomorrow’s youth about what you know now and that includes the soups and foods best enjoyed by your tribe.

The elderly are Natural: Most times the traditional ingredient that is used for a certain traditional soup is been replaced with modern ingredients or spices and this gives a different taste and aroma from the original version of the soup or food. But the elderly still knows and use the original ingredients and spices. There is definitely no other better place to learn about the soups and foods of a tribe if not from the elders.

The importance of the elderly in our midst with regard to our food and soups cannot be over stressed, so don’t just meet the elderly for advice alone, try making them tell you about you home soups and foods because soon the table will turn and you will become an elder.

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